/*
moxl - Modular XML Library
Copyright (c) 2007, Malcolm Sparks

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301, USA.
*/
package moxl.serialization;

import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.io.PrintWriter;

import moxl.dom.MoxlElement;
import moxl.dom.Visitable;

public class ElementSerializer
{
	private final PrintWriter out;

	public ElementSerializer(OutputStream out)
	{
		this.out = new PrintWriter(out);
	}

	public void serialize(MoxlElement element)
	{
		if (element instanceof Visitable)
		{
			Visitable visitable = (Visitable) element;
			visitable.accept(new SerializingVisitor(out));
		}
		else
		{
			throw new IllegalStateException("This serializer only works with visitable elements, not this: " + element.getClass().getName());
		}
		out.flush();
	}

}
